Author: Glasgow Archers

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Music to Shoot by

Within the universal set, archery intersects with so many things. Archery and dedication. Archery and health. Archery and banter. Archery and obsessive compulsion .. the intersections are endless. But one intersection you never see...

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All a Bit Mental?

Apparently today, Monday 30 March, is World Bipolar Day.  I’m not someone who usually bothers with the plethora of ‘Days’ that there are for this or that, but as I’m an archer and someone...

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Road to Merlin

With the recent opening of Merlin in Glenrothes, Scotland now has access to a major archery supplier on its doorstep. Until now, our closest store was Merlin in Bishops Auckland which meant a 332...

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Summer Season 2026

Looking outside at some of the weather we're currently suffering, its hard to believe we're just TWO WEEKS away from going outside for the "Summer" season. As of April, the outdoors of Whitecraigs beckons...

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Vegas 2026

The Vegas Shoot is arguably the largest and most prestigious indoor archery tournament in the world. Taking place currently in March each year in the city of Las Vegas, its a competition where anything...

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Cresting Arrows

One of the great things about making your own arrows is personalizing them. There's so many ways to stamp your personality on your HIT-iles (they aren't MISS-iles now are they ;o). Fletching is the...

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Dealing with Adversity

Adversity is never very far from your archery especially in competition. In practice you have time to fix things but in competition ... not so much. You've prepped for a shoot. You've got your...

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Medieval Glue

A couple of weeks ago we published an article on fletching glues including superglue, rubber based glue and fletching tape. But how did our archer ancestors get their feathers to stay stuck to their...

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Trading Cards for Archers

People collect stuff. This is probably down to shared ancestry. 150 million years ago (somewhere between the late Triassic and early Jurassic period), we share an ancestor with squirrels. Probably as a consequence, we...

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Innumeracy in Archers

Arithmetic is where numbers fly, like pigeons, in and out of your head - Carl Sandburg Archery is fantastic for improving yourself physically and mentally. For physical activity it engages the arms, shoulders, back,...

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Fletching Glue

A significant amount of time is spend by archers fletching and refletching arrows. Its like painting the Forth Rail Bridge or pushing a boulder up a mountain for eternity .. except more frustrating at...

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Are Bows Electric?

Since the turn of the millennium, electronics and microchips have found their way into everything. Cookers, fridges, tv's, electric toothbrushes rigged for WiFi .. even the humble toaster* can come with as much processing...

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2026

After the insanely eventful 2024, 2025 didn't see too many big events hit archery in general or us specifically. Compound ARE getting into the 2028 LA games but the news was tempered by the...

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Parallel Pro .. Take two

Not that long ago we wrote an article on the latest target arrow to come out of everyone's fav purveyors of aluminium and carbon products. No, not Tesla .. Easton. The arrow was the...

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Show Me? Show You!

There are veritable oceans of bushwah (Noun, North American informal: rubbish or nonsense) floating around in archery, especially in equipment. Advice is bandied about without consideration of who it applies to. Ask an elite...

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The Hottest Archer in Scotland

We are well into the winter/indoor season for 2025/26 .. happily shooting indoors in the warm and dry and on ground that is in no way a swamp. However, there will be chances to...